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Learn LLVM 12

You're reading from   Learn LLVM 12 A beginner's guide to learning LLVM compiler tools and core libraries with C++

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839213502
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 – The Basics of Compiler Construction with LLVM
2. Chapter 1: Installing LLVM FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Touring the LLVM Source 4. Chapter 3: The Structure of a Compiler 5. Section 2 – From Source to Machine Code Generation
6. Chapter 4: Turning the Source File into an Abstract Syntax Tree 7. Chapter 5: Basics of IR Code Generation 8. Chapter 6: IR Generation for High-Level Language Constructs 9. Chapter 7: Advanced IR Generation 10. Chapter 8: Optimizing IR 11. Section 3 –Taking LLVM to the Next Level
12. Chapter 9: Instruction Selection 13. Chapter 10: JIT Compilation 14. Chapter 11: Debugging Using LLVM Tools 15. Chapter 12: Create Your Own Backend 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding support for disassembling

The definition of the instructions in the target description allows the construction of decoder tables, which are used to disassemble an object file into a textual assembler. The decoder tables and a decoder function are generated by the llvm-tblgen tool. Besides the generated code, we only need to provide the code to register and initialize the M88kDisassembler class and some helper functions to decode registers and operands. We place the implementation in the Disassembler/M88kDisassembler.cpp file.

The getInstruction() method of the M88kDisassembler class does the decoding work. It takes an array of bytes as input and decodes the next instruction into an instance of the MCInst class. The class declaration is as follows:

using DecodeStatus = MCDisassembler::DecodeStatus;
namespace {
class M88kDisassembler : public MCDisassembler {
public:
  M88kDisassembler(const MCSubtargetInfo &STI, MCContext &Ctx)
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